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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Wave 14 boost design development – pre-pilot work, pilot experiments, and final boost design decisions
  1. Jonathan Burton
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-12 - June 20, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology

Data quality: wave 14 continuing and boost samples
  1. Michaela Benzeval
  2. Memory Mhembere
  3. John Payne
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-10 - June 19, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Demography

Nonresponse in address-based surveys
  1. Carla Xena
  2. Olena Kaminska
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-13 - June 19, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Area Effects
  5. Geography

Fieldwork outcomes at recruitment wave for Understanding Society’s second general population sample (GPS2)
  1. Joel Williams
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-08 - June 18, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Poverty
  5. Area Effects
  6. Living Standards
  7. Geography

Mothers ‘take a pay cut’ if their firstborn is a daughter
  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Damian Clarke
  3. Angelina Nazarova
Media - June 15, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Household Economics
  7. Health
  8. Economics
  9. Demography
  10. Wages And Earnings
  11. Childbearing: Fertility
  12. Well Being
  13. Social Behaviour
  14. Sociology Of Households
  15. Caregiving
  16. Social Psychology

Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave. Sixth report of session 2024–25. [House of Commons. Women and Equalities Committee]
Parliamentary Paper, HC 502 - June 10, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Public Policy
  4. Government
  5. Childbearing: Fertility
  6. Sociology Of Households
  7. Caregiving

The daughter penalty
  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Damian Clarke
  3. Angelina Nazarova
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-03 - May 28, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Household Economics
  7. Health
  8. Economics
  9. Demography
  10. Wages And Earnings
  11. Childbearing: Fertility
  12. Well Being
  13. Social Behaviour
  14. Sociology Of Households
  15. Caregiving
  16. Social Psychology

Sibling similarity in education and employment trajectories at ages 16–19 in the UK: the role of parental influence and individual experiences in early adolescence
  1. Alina Pelikh
  2. Morag Henderson
Journal Article - March 1, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Health
  6. Well Being
  7. Education
  8. Social Stratification
  9. Young People
  10. Child Development
  11. Sociology Of Households

Written evidence from Dr Laura Fumagalli, Dr Greta Morando, Dr Sonkurt Sen [SPL0041] [House of Commons. Women and Equalities Committee. Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave inquiry]
  1. Laura Fumagalli
  2. Greta Morando
  3. Sonkurt Sen
Parliamentary Paper - February 12, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Income Dynamics
  4. Social Attitudes
  5. Household Economics
  6. Health
  7. Finance
  8. Childbearing: Fertility
  9. Education
  10. Child Development
  11. Sociology Of Households
  12. Caregiving

Written evidence submitted by The Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (TH0005) [House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts. Tackling homelessness inquiry]
Parliamentary Paper - December 19, 2024
  1. Households
  2. Poverty
  3. Public Policy
  4. Demography
  5. Living Standards
  6. Housing Market
  7. Migration
  8. Ethnic Groups

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